A Lost Life

For every Christian there was a time where we were in a lost life. In a lost life, it often feels like there is no hope. Our hearts are searching for something but we just don’t know what we are searching for.

I heard the Reverend Billy Graham tell a story of a young lady who was in her first year of college. One day she began to cry uncontrollably—all she could do was cry.

Her school friends could not help; her teachers couldn’t help. She stopped going to classes because all she could do was cry.

The counselor at the college came and tried to help but to no avail, so they finally sent for her parents. When her family arrived, she told her mother that it was as if her heart was searching for something missing but she had no idea what it was.

She was drowning in sorrow. Her family, in an effort to help, sent for a preacher and after some time the young lady cried out to Christ for her salvation and the crying stopped.

The soul that is within each of us searches for the home it knows, but often we override its beckoning to God with busyness.

Victor Frankl said “a man without a deep sense of purpose will occupy himself with pleasure.” Sadly, this is a fact all too often played out in the lives of lost people.

Being lost is true oppression. It is a restrictive life of being held down and held back by the workings of demonic forces.

Oh sure, some lost folks seem to thrive and find what looks like success, but if they were earnestly satisfied by their profits, why does the obsession of more consume them? Because just as the Scripture says, “the flesh is never satisfied.”

A wealthy man can make a big business deal for great amounts of money and he may celebrate for a few days, but then he will begin to look towards another deal to make even more money. In reality, just as the Scripture states, “sin brings pleasure for a season.”

The pleasure that once was cannot be found, so the sin increases and people seek more pleasure. It soon becomes a vicious cycle of downward spirals until some tragic event comes to pass.

This is why the Bible says, “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven.” This is all they have! The lost do not know anything else; they don’t know a better way.

The lost and the saved that have not matured in their faith, if they think of God, either make him so big and so far away that He is unreachable, or they will bring Him down so small that He can’t do anything.

Some even personify God as uncaring and unforgiving and as a taker instead of a giver. In fact we cannot begin to understand how big God is, but even being as big as He is, God surrounds us. Every breath we take is a gift from God.

We breathe the air God created to sustain us in every moment. The blood that flows through our veins was created by God.

He is not distant. It is us who distance ourselves from Him like sheep that have strayed from the flock. Like sheep, when we return to the flock we are again happy and secure.

There is an overwhelming sense of well-being. Why? Because that is where we belong! Our souls (everyone) yearn to get back to where we belong—in the presence of God.

I was lost until I was 35. I busied myself continuously with work, training, motorcycles, racing, and countless other things. I felt like I couldn’t do enough.

I was always looking for something to find satisfaction in, but I could never find it. The night of my Salvation I felt a peace like I had never had. Many of the things I had been busy with no longer held any appeal.

The Void had been filled. I began sleeping better and resting more than I had known since I was a child. Without Jesus there is no Hope. There is only this physical life.

During my morning prayer, my heart was burdened by the Holy Spirit for a certain young lady in England. She is 16 years old and her mother is gone and her father is not a good father.

She lives with her very elderly grandparents (late 80s). She is a lost girl, and I could feel the hopelessness in her situation. My heart understood how she must feel, that sense of becoming completely alone.

She is coming to America this summer to visit a pen pal who is a saved Christian. The pen pal has not talked to her about being a Christian or about God yet. (I spoke with this person about their responsibility to share God’s Word.)

This young lady will be walking into a Christian family environment. All I could do was cry out to God to compel everyone around her to minister to her and to share the Good News of a risen Savior who is Christ the Lord!

Why do I mention this? I believe this to be an opportunity for those of us who are believers to pray fervently with all supplication for not only this young lady’s salvation, but for all those for whom God has burdened our hearts.

We all were lost once. I believe that most, if not all of us, had someone praying for us, and I know Prayers of Godly people are powerful! “The prayers of a righteous man availeth much”

Not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

Romans 12:11

Kenneth Kellar
A Man Called by God to Teach and Disciple.